All posts by Endy Zemenides

At the end of October, Greece’s Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection Vassilis Kikilias visited the United States to coordinate anti-terrorism policy with the Department of Justice, the CIA, FBI, State Department and National Security Council....

2015 will mark 100 years since genocidal policies against Turkey’s Christians – Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks – began. Beginning under the Ottomans and continuing through the birth of the Republic of Turkey, millions of Christians were killed in...

Greeks in the diaspora are finalizing their plans to travel to the homelands this summer, and “Travel to Greece and Cyprus” campaigns are in full swing. These campaigns tend to focus on the help we can provide...

At this year’s annual Cyprus Federation Conference, I moderated a panel discussing “youth” initiatives undertaken by young Cypriots in various groups (CYCA – the Cyprus Youth Committee of America; CYP – the Cyprus Young Professionals; and HALC.)...

With what was described as an “attaboy” call from Vice President Joe Biden to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, the latest resumption of reunification negotiations in Cyprus began with a signal of more direct U.S. involvement than in...

The 2014 fundraising efforts for all of our community’s institutions are in high gear. With the amount of dinner dances, church festivals, conferences – and with all the community leaders behind these respective events – it would...

Early in 2014, the sequel to the movie The 300 – 300: Rise of an Empire – will be released. It will tell the story of legendary Athenian commander Themistocles, and the historic naval battles of Artemisium...

On December 4-5, the Archons are holding their second annual International Religious Freedom conference. Their first conference – in 2010 – caused quite a stir in the Greek-American community as they honored Egemen Bağış – Turkey’s Minister...

At the tail end of what turned out to be a long period of surveillance and investigation, the government of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras finally took decisive action against the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, executing arrest warrants...

In an August 22nd piece in Kathimerini (Επαφή Σαμαρά με την ομογένεια), Kathimerini’s longtime U.S. correspondent Athanasios Ellis called for a more systematic and consistent method of communication and collaboration between the Greek government and the Greek...